[OS X TeX] TeXShop and Skim memory problems

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Tue Feb 2 22:46:39 CET 2016


> On Feb 2, 2016, at 3:30 PM, Justin C. Walker <justin at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Dec 21, 2015, at 09:38 , Richard Seguin wrote:
> 
>> I’m running the latest 10.11.2 version of OSX, and I’ve noticed that PDFKit still seems to have a serious memory leak problem. This seems to be a serious problem that has not yet been fixed. Has anyone reported this to Apple?
> 
> I can confirm this (on 10.11.3) for both Skim and TeXShop, although the two have much different patterns of memory use.
> 
> Skim's recorded memory usage (from 'top') shows monotone increasing usage, while TeXShop's shows up/down usage.  In fact, in TeXShop, if you scroll slowly, as if reading, the usage pops, and then drops to the previous level.  Perhaps the developers can comment on the differences.
> 
> Preview, as well, shows this problem, although it seems to be able to occasionally purge large chunks of that acquired memory.
> 
> I've filed a bug report with Apple.  The bug report is "rdar://24465654", although it isn't viewable outside Apple.  The more reports the merrier; it's one of the metrics Apple uses to determine its significance.
> 
> Any other info that shows up here, I will add to the report.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Justin

Howdy,

I'd guess is certainly is a PDFKit problem! I'm pretty sure that others have reported this to Apple and the more the merrier.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)







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